Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only the government could think of obesity as a new entitlement. Doesn't anyone stop to think what the creation of another aggrieved group will mean to the already bursting-at-the-seams body politic? Or did anyone fast-forward to the prospect of adjudicating whether a person is fat enough to park in a handicapped space at the shopping mall or should continue to get preferential seating on airplanes? "There is not a legal cure for every wrong," says Fred Siegal, a political science professor at Cooper Union. "This is litigiousness run wild...
...rumors of Federico Fellini's death must have been exaggerated. Surely the wildly contradictory results of last week's municipal elections were the surreal creation of Italy's most imaginative film director. Disgusted with 40 years of corrupt governments dominated by centrist parties, voters opted for the extremes -- recycled communists, neofascists, northern separatists -- signaling the end of one era while giving no clue to the direction of the new one. The defeat of the mainstream parties seems likely to be repeated when Italians elect a new national Parliament next year. Wrote Eugenio Scalfari, editor of the Rome daily La Repubblica...
Perhaps the main problem with "Mrs. Doubtfire,"then, lies in the fact that Williams' creation isso much more believable and likable than Daniel orany of the other "real-life" characters. Daniel inparticular is merely a rehash of the innocent,boymen Williams played without success in "Hook"and "Toys." "Mrs. Doubtfire" provides some bellylaughs but fails to carry through on the seriousmessage about family and divorce it seeks toproject in its latter scenes. Luckily, theseattempts do not inhibit the movie's comic moments,and Williams' mastery carries through despite theemotional baggage imposed...
...highlight of this exercise in cybergenesis was the creation of the woman on our cover, selected as a symbol of the future, multiethnic face of America. A combination of the racial and ethnic features of the women used to produce the chart, she is: 15% Anglo-Saxon, 17.5% Middle Eastern, 17.5% African, 7.5% Asian, 35% Southern European and 7.5% Hispanic. Little did we know what we had wrought. As onlookers watched the image of our new Eve begin to appear on the computer screen, several staff members promptly fell in love. Said one: "It really breaks my heart that...
...much larger L.D.P. faces other difficulties. The creation of 274 single- member districts means that a hefty number of incumbent L.D.P. members will have no constituency the next time around. In Gunma prefecture, north of Tokyo, for example, eight Liberal Democrats hold Diet seats, but only five new constituencies are likely to be created in its place. Fear of being turfed from office is provoking talk of splits within the L.D.P. as anxious politicians begin shopping for new homes. Socialists are also looking for new patrons, and no one expects the dust to settle until after the next election...